May 31, 2016
What a week!!! Happy Memorial
Day yesterday! Because it was Memorial day we went out and worked because
everyone was off and so it was a perfect day to be a missionary! For that
reason today is our Pday.
IT IS HOT HOT
HOT. Officially summer and it hit us in the face like a ton of bricks.
Hello to short sleeves, sumo hair buns, and sweat soaked backs.
This week was
FULL of so many things. I want to tell yall so many things but I am
afraid I won't have time! So buckle up folks and get ready for some stories of
the missionary life.
First off I will tell
you about E***! E*** is 24 years old, married, with 2 little girls!
She is really interested in the gospel and we have been teaching her for maybe
2 weeks. She is SO SOLID. When we were teaching her the Restoration
we were explaining that the Lord took the Priesthood power away from the earth
because the people were becoming wicked. All she had to say was, "OH
I do not doubt that! People are awful!!" She is so cute! We had her
read Alma 32 about faith before we saw her the next time and she loved it!!
Just devoured it. She told us that recently she has been really wanting
to paint a tree in her girls play room and she didn't know why. But when
she read Alma 32 about the seed and nourishing our faith, she knew that was
exactly the reason! She pays tribute to Alma for her "spiritual
prompting" haha
One of my BHAGS for my
mission (Big Hairy Audacious Goals from Phanks) is to bring a family into the
gospel. THIS IS MY FAMILY! They have so much potential I just love
them.
Do yall remember
B*****?? She was our Miracle May investigator that kinda
disappeared.....Her phone shut off and everytime we go over to check up on her
or anything, she is gone. We have been praying to find her but maybe she
moved??? We have no idea! Which is so sad!!
This past week Sister
Anderson and I went tracting for quite a bit. And the excuses that we
heard that day.....holy moly. We got bashed a few times too. We
were laughing Alllll dayyy at the things people would say to us.
On Thursday we
went on exchanges and I went to Madison with Sister Pierson. We biked
most of the day and I swear I sweated a couple gallons. We first visited
an older Less Active with some health problems. When she answered the
door we saw a huge bruise under her chin and dried blood under her
nose. She had fallen earlier that morning and was in really bad
shape. It was a miracle she answered the door when we came. We
helped her walk aback to her bed because she was so imbalanced and dizzy.
It was so scary! We called her daughter, fixed her some food, cleaned up
her house, and read from the Book of Mormon with her. It was really cool
to see that God truly knows us and knows what we are going through and that He
lead us there at exactly the right time to help her.
We also visited a
potential investigator named L***. She is a super old lady who chews
tobacco and she is really really deaf. She cannot hear a thing! And
if you mumble at all she gets so dang mad and says " Now don't make me pop
ya one now ya hear!" She was SO FUNNY. She has been reading
the Book of Mormon too and really likes it but was really confused when we told
her Joseph Smith wasn't in the Bible. Her great granddaughter was there
too and was really interested in taking the discussions! She really wants
to come to churchthis Sunday!. As we were leaving Leo got really upset
when she found out I am a missionary in Athens and probably wont be back to see
her because we were on exchanges. She threatened to send the police after
me in Athens if I didn't come back and visit her hahaha
J*****! Remember
I told yall about a lady who came and knocked on the church door last week
while we were emailing? And we just happened to tract into her that
day? Well Joanna is still awesome!! She has been reading the Book of
Mormon and absolutley LOVES Joseph Smith. She says she can totally relate
to him and just loves his yearning to not only do what is right but to
learn the truth. Joanna is all about knowledge and learning and is very
open. She is OBSESSED and I mean 120% obsessed with Yoga. She is 76
years old and is all about finding your cosmic conscience and stuff. She
has a thousand books by Yogananda, the guy who invented Yoga and somehow always
brings the discussion back to yoga. Its an everyday struggle for us to keep
the topic of conversation away from Yoga. But we realized yesterday that
if it helps her understand the gospel then we'll just run with it haha.
The past two Pdays we have gone to the wellness center in town and done a yoga
class with her and lemme tell ya..it was awesome hahaha I thoroughly enjoyed it
even though I am the most unflexible person on the planet. I had a hard
time looking at Sister Anderson thorought the class and not bursting out
laughing because we were the youngest people in this class by at least 40
years. Because I enjoyed it so much Joanna gave me one of her Yoga books
to study up and get better hahaha who knows, I may be a yogini by the time I
come home from the mission (yogini = female yoga person)
I have been thinking
alot lately about the words "It was the best of times, it was the worst of
times"... Looking back on life before the mission I feel like there were
definitely "best times" and "worst times" and they
came at separate times. I never really saw the two come together at the
same time until I became a missionary. There have been a fair share of
times where I have felt on top of the world, and lower than the dust of the
earth- sometimes within 20 minutes of each other!
Through those
experiences, I can promise anyone and everyone that no matter where you're at
in life, no matter how you feel today or tomorrow, no matter how high or
how low you think you are- the Atonement of Jesus Christ takes you where
you are and lifts you. It makes the good times better, and the bad times
okay. The more I've learned about it, the more I realize that its the
power that has kept me going from day to day. It gives purpose to what me
and every other missionary does every day- it gives purpose to waking up in the
morning, studying, talking to people, serving others, experiencing hard times
and weaknesses, feeling inadequate, overcoming fears and doubts, and most
importantly- helping people begin their journey to become more like their
Father in Heaven.
Ill end with my
favorite scripture right now!
"...What doth the
Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God?" (Micah 6:8)
This is His
church. It is true. His gospel is perfect. I LOVE IT.
con mucho amor,
Hermana MOLINE
sureloveyoumolinesrockmissionairesrule
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